Riches

I have decided that riches, like visions of grandeur, are different for every person. The importance of riches has even evolved, for me, in the last twenty years. No longer am I concerned with having the best, but having a comfortable and safe world for Jean and I. No longer do I have to have the fastest, nor the most, I have learned a secret.....a secret to life itself!

That secret is that God has a plan for my life. Why He ever revealed this to me, I cannot explain, but He has provided me with abundant riches. The richest gift He gave me was the promise that He would never leave me, nor forsake me. Another part of His plan to give me riches, was His promise to never put more on me than I could withstand. Another gift full of riches in His plan was to make me content, in whatever state I am in, but the gift He has given me, that makes me the richest, is His promise of eternal life. That one gift is so full of riches, that any disappointments, that any trials, that any temptations, that any earthly slights, are easy to bear.

A great amount of money, I do not have. The finest home, or the nicest car, or fine jewelry, I have not. I cannot go to the furthest parts of the world on vacation, or buy anything that strikes my fancy, but I feel that I am a man of great riches. Riches that moth and rust cannot corrupt, nor that thieves can enter in and steal, but riches that will stand the test of time, time eternal!